god cant send me to hell because god said its not punishable to go to h-e-doublehockeysticks for drawing judas+thomas fluff because no ship is a sin and gay people are le epics

spark19:

sunshine-tattoo:

damnfool-of-a-took:

bai-xue-lives:

queertilly:

hissorikosrandomness:

sheisawonder:

dirthymns:

the thing folks living in Christian dominant cultures gotta realize is that even if you’re not Christian, your basic understanding of religion and spirituality and morality is still being filtered through a Christian lens. your very concept of what religion is and does is filtered through that lens.

This is what I call cultural Christianity, for those who are still confused

“But everyone celebrates christmas.”

No. No we don’t.

“Religion is based on complete blind submission and not asking any questions ever”

No. That’s Christianity.

“Religion is totally focused on the afterlife and getting into heaven and avoiding hell”

Nope. Christianity again.

“Religion is about pushing your beliefs on others and trying to get them to convert”

Still Christianity.

Actually that’s even more specific - that’s Calvinism, which predominates in America. America isn’t just culturally Christian,it’s culturally Calvinist, which very specifically focuses on submission, the fear of damnation, and conversion. It’s also not just any old Calvinism, but a very rigidly puritanical variety thanks to our roots.

There are other culturally Christian countries, which are of other denominations and therefore have a slightly different bent. England is culturally Anglican, Germany is culturally Lutheran, Italy and Spain are culturally Catholic, Russia is culturally Orthodox, etc. However, even the cultural Catholicism of Italy is different from, say, the cultural Catholicism of Ireland.

So even here, we need to be careful not to filter other cultures’ Christianities through what is a very Americanized (via @queertilly) Christianity, and vice versa with other countries. Speaking as an American, even our concept of what Christianityis has been Americanised.

^^^ that

Sorry this is a very good and serious post but the second yall said Calvinism my brain thought of this little guy:

soilrockslove:

idea: separation of family and state

idea: separation of family and state

thelandoflittlecubesandtea:

Hymenoptera II

(a snippet)

The Seventh Plague

The factory smokestacks rose white and gleaming rust-brick in the sunlight.  And from their tops came clouds, until the trees were coated grey.  Then, in the moth’s night, which is day, they came.  while the six legged slept in the sun and dreamed of the moon.   Some were taken by birds and eaten, some by, children and preserved.

Thus the king of all moths found his son, hiss firstborn, who he had not known to mark with ash over the lintel of his wings.

This is how a power found him.  It spoke into his mind and he felt it like a tassled shawl around his shoulders.  “And once again the wheel turns.”  The roaring pain of a voice changed, the moth king thought, perhaps it seemed a little rueful? ironic?  “And some, are crushed beneath it.”

“However…”

“Yes,” whispered the moth king, “i’d do anything you might ask.”

“Then be my agent in this, and i can give you revenge against your enemies, and protection.”

And the moth pharaoh said yes, and so The Moth smoothed his left hand over the king’s back and took out his scissors, and with them he cut the scales from his wings until they were windows, arched and ribbed, as clear as glass.  andd he changed his skin until it shone with an under-tone of blue iridescence.

And grasped the very end of his abdomen and pulled until there appeared what looked at first glance like a stinger, but longer and with a much more sinister purpose.

“Now, are you ready to seek your foes, and to “subvert them from within?””

A quick nod, and with that motion the segmented eyes caught the light and glistened.

Saint Calvin told me not to worry about you

But he’s got his own things to deal with

There’s really just one thing that we have in common

Neither of us will be missed

birth of venus/death of the church

this piece was very cathartic to make to represent healing my religious trauma and learning to accept and love my body.

Chapel today was really what I needed to hear. Just by being, we are filled with something holy.

As an abuse survivor it was meaningful for a couple of reasons: to abuse another person is to abuse someone holy. There can be no excuse, no deserving. What happened to me was wrong and underserved.

And also an answer to something I struggle with. I often feel like since no one was there during the abuse aside my abuser, no one can understand what happened or how it changed me. I feel like I have become incomprehensible. But if I am filled with the holy spirit, then that spirit was there, that spirit felt the same as I did, that spirit suffered as I did. Maybe I wasn’t alone, and I’m not alone in my recovery. I am understood.

meiiodyy:

lolawashere:

Move over, hot priest! Tom Hiddleston is serving ‘lusty vicar’ on The Essex Serpent

“I’m on Team Lusty here,” Hiddleston’s costar Claire Danes says.

If your love for Fleabag's Hot Priest (Andrew Scott) still hasn’t passed, Tom Hiddleston is here to save the day (or quite possibly ruin your life).

Hiddleston stars as Will, a Victorian vicar who forges a connection with amateur scientist Cora Seaborne (Claire Danes), on Apple TV+'s The Essex Serpent.

When asked about the inevitable comparisons playing an attractive man of the cloth, Hiddleston laughs, before Danes prompts him to tell a story about a man who wandered onto their location shoot and realized what they were filming (The Essex Serpent is based on Sarah Perry’s novel of the same name).

“There was a passerby who’d come to visit an ancient site in Essex,” Hiddleston recounts to EW. “He came by where we were filming and said, 'I’m not here to disturb, but I think I know what you’re doing and I know the story. You must be the lusty vicar. There’s always a lusty vicar. I can tell by your hair.’”

In all seriousness though, the role demands much of Hiddleston, a man of faith trying to lead his flock through a difficult time and resisting a mounting attraction to Cora despite already having a wife, Stella (Clemence Poesy). An exclusive clip from the series’ premiere showcases Will acting as a literal shepherd to a flock, trying to free a sheep caught in the marsh — as Cora comes to his aid.

One might assume Hiddleston’s background as a classics student at Cambridge would have been excellent preparation to portray a man who often recites passages in Latin. But Hiddleston says he found the religious texts themselves and the collective experience of the pandemic most useful in crafting his character.

“I was really humbled by it in a way,” he reflects. “I was more aware than ever of the extraordinary responsibility that someone like Will has for helping people through times of uncertainty. And to be someone who takes that sense of duty and responsibility very seriously. It must be so challenging to contain the anxieties of so many.”

“I have no great expertise in the great texts of faith actually, so that was a bit of new territory for me,” he adds, elaborating on his reading preparation for the role. “Those stories seem familiar but they actually weren’t and it was really enjoyable to excavate them and to read them. There’s one moment, it’s one of the psalms that we put on camera at this one point where Will is trying to help everybody and he says, 'Therefore we will not fear though the waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling.’ You realize that these words have been around so long, and we’ve all been through so much uncertainty and it was so apt to what we were doing.”

The Essex Serpent premieres May 13. Watch the clip above for more.

As you can imagine, Season 2 of Fleabag really did throw me off. I just, o O F. Hot priests are my jam, so this lusty vicar bit’s going to kill me.

judygemstone:

judygemstone:

all abortion is moral. die mad about it.

“but what if I’D been aborted???” sis, i wish you had been

“But what if YOU’D been aborted???” Then your sorry ass would be having this exact conversation with some other poor sucker.